Memcached is a famous content caching platform, which can increase the speed and the overall performance of your websites immensely in case they use a database or an API. This is accomplished by caching the calls to the API/database and the replies that are returned, so when a customer searches for a given product on your website, for example, the database won’t have to be accessed to return the results and the entire procedure will be carried out much faster. This is valid for all types of database-driven apps and not only for shopping portals, as every time a specific web page is accessed, the app sends a request to its database to get the content that should be displayed. With Memcached, not only will your site load noticeably faster, but it will also create much less server load. If any content in the database is modified, the cached responses will also be ‘refreshed’, so the website visitors will not see any out-of-date information.
Memcached in Cloud Hosting
You can take advantage of the Memcached memory caching system with all Linux cloud hosting that we offer. It’s offered as an optional upgrade, which you can acquire with only a couple of clicks through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It needs an extension, which is already installed on our cloud platform, so you can begin using the Memcached caching system the moment you add it. The upgrade is separated into two parts, which will offer you more versatility depending on the sites that you would like to use it for. The first one determines the number of the websites that will use the Memcached caching system, or the ‘instances’, while the second one is related to the system memory, in other words – to how much content Memcached will be able to cache. You can get more system memory in increments of 16 MB and the more memory you have ordered, the more data will be cached, which may be a very good idea for traffic-intensive sites with large databases and numerous users. Thus, you can accelerate the loading speed of every script-driven Internet site hosted on our cloud servers without any efforts.
Memcached in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you order one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you will find Memcached as an optional upgrade in the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you would like to use it for any of the websites hosted in the account, you can activate it with just a couple of mouse clicks. The distributed memory object caching platform is suitable for any script-driven web application like Joomla™, WordPress, or even a custom application, and based on your requirements, you will be able to choose two different things – how many Internet sites will use Memcached, i.e. the number of instances; and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory that the platform will use. The two features are not tied to each other, so if you run a high-demand website with a lot of data, you can order one instance and a large amount of system memory. Memcached will optimize the overall performance of your sites soon after you activate it and both you and your website visitors will enjoy better load speeds.
Memcached in VPS Servers
Memcached comes as standard with all Linux VPS servers ordered with our custom Hepsia Control Panel. The extension it requires in order to work correctly is compiled when the VPS server is set up, so you can begin using the content caching platform the moment your brand new server is completely functional. The system memory that the Memcached platform can employ depends on the particular Virtual Private Server plan, but even with the low-end plans, you’ll get several hundred megabytes that will be at your disposal exclusively for this platform. This will permit you to boost the performance of numerous sites hosted on the VPS at the same time and to decrease the load even if you have large-scale script-based sites with lots of viewers. The Memcached caching platform can be used with any script – Mambo, Drupal™ or Joomla™, or a custom-made one, and you will notice the better overall performance shortly after you begin using it.
Memcached in Dedicated Servers
Any dedicated server that is ordered with our Hepsia Control Panel comes with Memcached pre-installed by default, so you can start using this object caching system the moment your server is assembled, without having to upgrade or install anything. The amount of system memory that Memcached can use depends on the server that you have picked, but since our servers are astonishingly powerful and due to the fact that it is likely that you’ll host resource-hungry Internet sites on them, the minimum amount of memory that the caching system can use will be 3 GB. This will allow you to improve the overall performance of very popular websites with ease and you will see the difference shortly after the Memcached caching system begins caching database queries. You can use the system with any database-driven web page, including those that are based on widely used CMSs like Joomla™ and WordPress.